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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, who is the current chairman of the Space Advisory Council?
(a) Dr. Price.
(b) Dr. Stenton.
(c) Commander Norton.
(d) Professor Davidson.

2. At first, Rama is believed to be what?
(a) A comet.
(b) A collapsed star.
(c) A rotating black hole.
(d) An ergosphere.

3. What does the Commander and his companion use to move around on Rama after landing?
(a) Propellent.
(b) A shuttle.
(c) Jets and guide ropes.
(d) Space suits with power packs.

4. What is unusual about object 31/439?
(a) It is traveling in an ellipse with clockwork precision that is retraced every few years.
(b) It is given a name of a mythological creature.
(c) It is traveling straight past the orbits of the inner planets and will impact the Sun.
(d) It has a diameter of forty kilometers and is traveling in an atypical asteroidal path.

5. What is a light curve?
(a) A slow variation in the brilliance of all asteroids.
(b) The extent to which an asteroid waxes over a period of hours.
(c) The extent to which an asteroid wanes over a period of hours.
(d) The degree to which an asteroid's orbit bends.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what streams from the newly-opened pillbox "like dazzling diamonds as the brilliant sunlight caught them"?

2. Who speaks fluent Simplish?

3. What location is home to more than a million people who had their hearing permanently damaged in 2077?

4. In Chapter 10, how do the explorers descend the ladder?

5. How long is the radio time lag between the Endeavour and Earth?

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